PM Briceño Says that John Saldivar Needs to Find a Job

John Briceño

It’s no surprise that former U.D.P. ministers have been openly critical of the Briceño Administration and their decisions.  But a recent post by former Minister John Saldivar on Facebook did garner a bit of attention as he blamed the Briceño Administration for causing the suffering of more than two hundred thousand Belizeans.  PM Briceño was asked about Saldivar’s comments and here’s how he responded.

Prime Minister John Briceño

“I think John Saldivar needs to find a job. That’s the first thing he needs to do because politics is over for him. He’s never going to get elected ever again so he needs to go and find a job that he needs to start with and maybe we could help reduce the unemployment rate in the country let’s start with that. But for him to just- you see you lose all sense of credibility when you say these foolish things man. These things are ludicrous of what he is saying. The people lost their jobs long before. We need to remind people the last four quarters before COVID three of them the economy contracted and in one of them we only had growth of less than 1%. We were already in a recession before COVID hit us. People were already losing their jobs, now that COVID hit us then of course tourism gone through the door or through the window and so all of these people now don’t have a job. The damage was already there, we are turning things around.”